Saturday, June 23, 2012

Paint and repairs all done, the front porch looks amazing, now we just need front steps. This might take awhile seeing as how the plumping for the upstairs bathroom sprung a leak and Texas is busy getting that all sorted out.

We put the flower boxes back up today, and they make the front flower bed look sad. We need to really tear the whole bed out and put in new soil. That will have to wait till next year though.

Elsie has discovered a love of the garden and I have suddenly found myself in need of Elsie proof garden fencing. She has an insatiable appetite for tomatoes, this morning alone I lost count after 23. Aside from tomatoes she loves snacking on radish beans, lemon balm, and fennel.

Elsie helping in the Garlic patch.

Overall we had a late start around the tree trunk due to the incredible amount of digging required to get at the roots, but it's all coming along fine now.

I did a boarder of flowers around the outside of the stump where the soil was to shallow to handle vegetables.

My rhubarb which is on it's first year is taking over. I tried to pin it with fennel which has kept it from growing out to much, but once I pull the fennel it will open up. Perhaps I will leave the fennel.

This is obviously not plants, but I am so excited to have more than 6 diapers. We now have 23! and it has changed my life. As part of my preparing for baby number 3 I'm stocking up on diapers. Bring on the dirty diapers new baby, I'll be ready.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Remember the duct tape across our front window? It was there for what seemed like forever. Well we are moving on with the next stage of our front yard improvement project. Unfortunately very little thought was put into the timeline, so now I am without front steps for an undetermined amount of time.

Texas was having too much fun during the tear down to hear reason.

And this would be the snake who has lived under our front steps the last two summers we've been here. Sadly, he had to find a new home.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Texas and I had the most fun last night, watching Annie at golf camp. There is something so cute about 10 little kids carting around their golf bags and putting across the green. I don't play golf, I actually have no idea what your trying to do other than get the teeny tiny ball into the equally teeny tiny hole somewhere in the ground.

I'm just glad that Annie loves Golf camp, and is enjoying her summer with very little effort on my part.

Believe it or not, we have a patio. Texas finished it this last weekend. I'm a little slow on the posting, sorry. So far we only have two grown up chairs to put on it, but we're working on that. Eventually we get a patio table with chairs, but I'm in no hurry. Just glad one more project is complete.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

The tomato plants have reached past the 9 foot mark and are still going. We've gotten to eat a few here and there, but in about two weeks we should have enough to start the first round of canning. I'm glad I jumped the gun on these this year, seeing as how I'm behind almost everywhere else. Texas and I almost have the tree stump roots chopped out where we can get them, but it will take us a long time to remove the whole stump.

Banjo is tired of baby chicks. They no longer seem to be very interesting, and honestly I'm tired of them too. They take a lot of extra care, that I don't really have the time to give them. Thankfully, Annie is charge of most there care. Sunshine and Lemon drop, just better not be roosters.

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Maddie

I was a single mom with one little girl up until last year when I met a man from Texas. He swept me off my feet and I suddenly found myself married with two adorable little girls. I now spend my days trying to juggle a baby, a four year old and a husband who thinks I'm slightly crazy.